{"id":25446,"date":"2014-12-30T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25446"},"modified":"2014-12-24T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T04:55:12","slug":"qotd-satires-influence-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/30\/qotd-satires-influence-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Satire&#8217;s influence in the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Satire] can\u2019t [make a difference in the world]. Not a real difference. It can destroy, but it cannot produce. That\u2019s the problem. You can destroy someone \u2014 it\u2019s possible to that, if you\u2019re very good. People have been politically destroyed by humor. But the problem is, you cannot create with it. It\u2019s totally static in that way. It\u2019s an act of demolition. Some things are just stronger than a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Fran Lebowitz, quoted by Lauren Ingeno in <a href=\"http:\/\/gwtoday.gwu.edu\/fran-lebowitz-i-am-not-hostess-i-am-prosecutor\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fran Lebowitz: I Am Not a Hostess. I Am a Prosecutor&#8221;, <em>George Washington Today<\/em><\/a>, 2014-04-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satire] can\u2019t [make a difference in the world]. Not a real difference. It can destroy, but it cannot produce. That\u2019s the problem. You can destroy someone \u2014 it\u2019s possible to that, if you\u2019re very good. People have been politically destroyed by humor. But the problem is, you cannot create with it. It\u2019s totally static in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-25446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-criticism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25447,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446\/revisions\/25447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}